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Posted on 08/05/2014 9:17:01 AM PDT by marktwain
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Better yet, feint at the chest and when they lift up their arms to back away, slash under the back side of the bicep. Will die every time.
Though, I’ve hoped that my fencing skills would help: Crouch into a defensible fencing stance, and with lightning speed, thrust blade-up under the ribcage for the heart. Parry as necessary.
Thoughts?
The heart is a vital organ. A slender, flat bladed rapier or foil can slip in and cause damage. A typical knife won’t quite “cut it.”
With a typical knife you’re better off going for somewhere with an artery somewhat close to the surface or major bundle of veins.
If you have time to continue the fight and don’t mind the noise a good strike near the groin offers plenty of targets. One effective strike and you need only block/evade while the opponent bleeds out.
If you insist on going for a heart strike you might have better luck striking under the armpit, but only if if your blade is very strong, long and flat.
This is a very rookie mistake. Trained knife fighters will wait until they have closed the distance to at least their lunge distance before they will display the knife.
Drawn but concealed wins the element of surprise.
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I spent years working with knives, you need friends that will practice with you, the kind of thing that a lot of physical 20 year olds do constantly, fight, fight, fight.
If your friends during your 20s and early 30s are not the type who love to fight and wrestle and play rough constantly, then you probably need to join a class or something.
Well, sadly, my 20s and even my 30s are far behind me now. I suppose I’ll just make good use of my concealed-carry permit.
But if knives give you the weeby jeevys, like they do most people, watch some videos and practice some at home, or if you can afford it, take a few classes specializing in knife fighting and defense, after all, it doesn't hurt for you to carry a knife to back up your pistol.
Don't practice “knife fighting” that instills a duelling mentality. You do not want to get into blender contest ala’ Tommy Lee Jone/Steven Seagal. A more accurate term would be knife killing. A human can remain conscious and dangerous even when a major vessel is cut.
Look up The Dead Mans 10(seconds). You want as close to a one hit stop as you can get.
Google Darren Laur - Gladiator School. Straight from the prison system based on practical experience. Surprise and a straight deep horizontal thrust through the armpit will reach a lung,collapsing it, and the recipient will buckle allowing follow up as needed or run like hell.
This morning I lucked out and was able to buy two boxes of ammo.
I placed the boxes on the front seat and headed back home, but stopped at a gas station where a drop-dead gorgeous blonde in a short skirt was filling up her car at the next pump.
She glanced at the interior of my car, saw the two boxes of ammo, turned and said to me in a sexy voice, “I’m a big believer in barter, old fella. Would you be interested in trading sex for ammo?”
I thought for a few seconds and asked,
“What kind of ammo ‘ya got?”
LOL
Didn't need to shoot, he boogied. Guy's in prison for 67 years, Had a LOT of other charges. Girl he pointed the knife at is now 24, and I get free hugs whenever I see her.
But if knives give you the weeby jeevys, like they do most people, watch some videos and practice some at home, or if you can afford it, take a few classes specializing in knife fighting and defense, after all, it doesn’t hurt for you to carry a knife to back up your pistol.
(.i) He will approach as close as he can, (ii) he will keep the knife hidden, and (iii) the sudden attack will involve multiple stabs (not just slashes).
As for the poster who asked about knife training – there are several effective systems for blade use, with some of the more effective ones being Filipino with styles like Pekiti Tirsia Kali teaching a very effective knife system. There are also other systems ranging from a South African system often used by criminals (they use cheap switchblades and like to shake or ‘shimmer’ the blade as they attack), to a very effective American-created style called Libre Fighting Systems that, in my opinion, is even better than Pekiti Tirsia in terms of using a knife. Some of the things taught in Libre border on the criminal. And talking about criminal, there are some prison-style attacks that are almost exclusively stabbing-type moves, and they are very effective (and yes, there are people who teach prison-style knife, and even a prison-style boxing system called 52 Blocks).
Anyways, underestimating a knife is something that can be quite dangerous. Fortunately most knife users are only employing the blade to threaten/intimidate their target, which means that the target has sufficient time to – if a CCW holder – defend themselves. However, if the knife user is going for the attack, by the time the target knows he is a victim he will already be stabbed multiple times.
As an aside …many of the knife defenses taught in martial arts are completely useless. Against a committed attacker NONE of those fancy wrist movements will work for over 90% of their users. The most effective self-defense against a knife attack is situational awareness. That is even more effective than having a firearm when it comes to a committed knife attacker.
Sources: Before I got licensed and got my 2,500 Dollar Glock (in my country things are expensive and prices ridiculously ramped up ...that 2,500 Glock would cost about 550 in the US), I studied a variety of different knife combative systems that taught me just how dangerous a knife is in the right hands. I honestly couldn’t over emphasize just how dangerous a committed knife attacker can be, and that within 5 feet I would be more effective with a blade than with my overpriced G19 (and I say this as someone who does very well in IDPA). I have also realized that many gun owners think they own death rays, and a number develop very bad habits/expectations where they feel they are somehow protected because they have a firearm. A firearm is simply a tool, and a tool that without proper dynamic training (and I don't mean plugging paper), situational awareness and proper mindset, will only work against people who are even less prepared than you are. Against someone who is better prepared, even when he 'only' has a knife, many gun owners would not even get a chance to understand what is happening before they have at least 7 critical stabs in their torso.
The only saving grace is that most knife attackers are (a) inexperienced and (b) almost always interested in intimidating rather than doing the stealth/surprise attack that you normally see in Filipino/Prison knife systems (where the victim literally doesn’t know what’s happening before the blade is in their body).
Some knife attack videos:
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